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BRASILIA: An indigenous leader whose body was found deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil last month drowned, officials said Friday, after an autopsy found no signs of violence. Tribal leaders had blamed Emyra Waiapi’s death on “non-indigenous people” after finding his remains in a river on July 23 — several days before heavily armed miners allegedly overran a …

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